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1. Spenser Confidential (2020)
R | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate Hawk to take down criminals.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger
Votes: 97,717
2. Appaloosa (2008)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Director: Ed Harris | Stars: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons
Votes: 64,738 | Gross: $20.21M
3. Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005 TV Movie)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Reg Rogers, Viola Davis
Votes: 8,254
4. Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama
In this prequel to 'Stone Cold,' Tom Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone, an L.A. cop who relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth
Votes: 6,265
5. Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A body's found on the shore of a lake. Police Chief Jesse Stone starts an investigation. It turns out to be a pregnant high school student. There's also a case of a persistent wife beater. Jesse starts seeing a shrink and dating.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Orla Brady
Votes: 5,515
6. Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Police Chief Jesse Stone's shrink recommends looking into old, unsolved cases to reduce drinking by staying busy. Of 3 cases before his time, he starts on the killing of a bank teller. He's also investigating an alleged rape.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Rebecca Pidgeon
Votes: 4,974
7. Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Leslie Hope
Votes: 4,566
8. Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama
Police Chief Jesse Stone's suspended in Paradise. He helps a friend as "temp" with a serial killer in Boston. He gets his first cellphone to avoid calls from his ex. Paradise PD's way over its head with a convenience store robbery/murder.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 4,342
9. Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jesse Stone comes out of involuntary retirement after the new chief who replaced him was blown up, along with another officer in their police car. Jesse is forced to solve the crime on his own since all the other officers have quit.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben
Votes: 3,995
10. Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama
After his involuntary retirement, Jesse Stone investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the Paradise police force deals with the arrogant new chief, who is the son-in-law of a town councilman.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben
Votes: 3,922
11. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Ron McLarty, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 3,271
12. Monte Walsh (2003 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Wyoming, 1892: Monte's been cowboy for ranchers all his life but he's no longer young and big business is taking over the ranches.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads
Votes: 3,033
13. Poodle Springs (1998 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama
An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Tom Bower
Votes: 994
14. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Action
Hawk is called upon to help those who need his help or whose lives may be in danger. He is also called upon by people from his past to settle old scores or to collect or settle old debts.
Stars: Avery Brooks, Moses Gunn, Angela Bassett, William Fichtner
Votes: 691
15. Thin Air (2000 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Seda, Luis Guzmán
Votes: 465
16. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
120 min | Mystery
House boat living Private eye who solves crime.
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Michael O. Smith, Alfie Wise
Votes: 393
17. Spenser: Small Vices (1999 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rita Fiore hires Spenser to determine if two-time loser Ellis Alves really did kill a college coed. Soon everybody wants him off the case, from the investigating officer to the parents of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Eugene Lipinski, Laila Robins, Chris Britton
Votes: 327
18. E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998– )
30 min | Documentary
Hollywood's most notorious scandals exposed through interviews and re-enactments.
Stars: A.J. Benza, A.C. Lyles, Marc Wanamaker, Bob Thomas
Votes: 317
19. The Curse of the Bambino (2003 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Sport
Director: George Roy | Stars: Ben Affleck, Glen Ordway, Steven Wright, Michael Chiklis
Votes: 246
20. Spenser: Ceremony (1993 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spenser travels from Boston's "Combat Zone" ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Lynch, Andrew Wild | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, J. Winston Carroll, Dave Nichols
Votes: 227
21. Spenser: The Judas Goat (1994 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Mystery
Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination attempts on African leader Winston Boyko by some racist terrorist named Paul.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Natalie Radford, Geordie Johnson
Votes: 209
22. Spenser: A Savage Place (1995 TV Movie)
Crime, Mystery
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operating out of a previously-bankrupt movie company.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Cynthia Dale, Ross Petty
Votes: 192
23. Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes (1994 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
When one of Susan's former patients, a news reporter, turns up dead on the outskirts of Wheaton, the cocaine capitol of Massachusetts, she and Spenser head out to Wheaton to find out why he... See full summary »
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Sonja Smits, J. Winston Carroll
Votes: 190
24.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Company Man
(1988)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser is hired to find out who stole 40 pounds of dynamite from a local construction company and used some of it to stage a bombing at one of their construction sites. After a second ... See full summary »
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 187
25.
B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode:
Blues for Buder
(1989)
Mystery
A young boy who has radical religious ideas seems totally lost, no one knows how to deal with him. Both his parents disappeared. Then BL is asked to look into it, and it seems that there's much more to his situation.
Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Elizabeth Ashley, Neil Patrick Harris
Votes: 169
26. The Bob Braun Show (1967–1984)
Talk-Show
This was a local Cincinnati, Ohio talk show hosted by Bob Braun, a Cincinnati personality. Bob Braun got his start as the sidekick for Ruth Lyons, another Cincinnati legend.
Stars: Bob Braun, Rob Reider, The Cliff Lash Orchestra, Nancy James
Votes: 156
27. Walking Shadow (2001 TV Movie)
96 min | Mystery
As a favor to his longtime lover Dr. Susan Silverman, Spenser agrees to investigate the stalking of a theater company director, pro bono. But before he can get started, an actor is killed ... See full summary »
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts
Votes: 125
28.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Promised Land/Pilot
(1985)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser is hired by a real estate developer with gambling problems to track down his wife, who's run away. When it becomes obvious that the wife has gotten herself in over her head with ... See full summary »
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Robert Urich, Barbara Stock, Avery Brooks, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 109
29.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
No Room at the Inn
(1985)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser's apartment burns down, but he's allowed to move into an old fire station as thanks for saving a firefighter's life. Meanwhile, Spenser and Hawk are hired to protect the life of ... See full summary »
Director: John Wilder | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 94
30.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
The Choice
(1985)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A old man whom Spenser and Hawk knows is shot. They discover that the killer are a couple who comes from an affluent background, which they hide behind. It turns into a cat and mouse game ... See full summary »
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 86
31.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Children of a Tempest Storm
(1985)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser kills a would-be thief in the course of thwarting a robbery. He and Susan take in the man's two children while investigating his past. Susan discovers she's pregnant.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 69
32.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Original Sin
(1985)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a young nun, and stumbles onto a corrupt landlord.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 67
33.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Discord in a Minor
(1985)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser's been hired by a conductor to find his daughter who ran away with her boyfriend. When he finds them, she tells him that her father has been molesting her. Spenser then tells her ... See full summary »
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 61
34.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
The Killer Within
(1985)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins, only to discover his employer suffers from a split personality.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 55
35.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Autumn Thieves
(1985)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser stumbles onto a ring of thieves while investigating a relic stolen from a museum.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 52
36.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
On the Night He Was Betrayed
(1987)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An alcoholic priest who works with drug addicts and runaways in Boston's Combat Zone is accused of murder and he asks Spenser to find out what really happened. Spenser suspects that the ... See full summary »
Director: David Whorf | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 52
37.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Resurrection
(1985)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser investigates a crooked vice cop involved in the mugging of one of Susan's friends.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 50
38.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
The Road Back
(1987)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Spenser is protecting someone, he gets shot. He then learns that there a chance that he might lose the use of his injured arm. So he has therapy while waiting for the surgery that ... See full summary »
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Ron McLarty
Votes: 50
39.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Internal Affairs
(1985)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Marital infidelity and suspected involvement in a gambling ring lead to Lt. Quirk's suspension. Belson is shot during a raid. Spenser works to clear Quirk's name and catch Belson's would-be killer.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 49
40.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
White Knight
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Hawk goes to check on the boxer he owns, he is arrested. So Spenser goes there to try and figure out what is going on. They discover that it might have something to do with a man who ... See full summary »
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Ron McLarty
Votes: 49
41.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
My Enemy, My Friend
(1987)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser and Hawk are on opposite sides of a case when a hot shot young black teenager tries to be a young "Hawk" - his idol. He is a witness to a double murder. Hawk wants to send him away.... See full summary »
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 48
42.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Blood Money
(1985)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The wife of a kidnapped oil tycoon hires Spenser to deliver $1 million in ransom money to a ring of terrorists while police have the drop-off area surrounded.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 47
43.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Widow's Walk
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser needing to get over Susan's departure takes a job that takes him out of town. A woman whose husband's a fisherman who died recently, needs his help because another family who wants ... See full summary »
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Ron McLarty
Votes: 47
44.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
A Madness Most Discreet
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser tries to protect a former Russian ballerina, when she hires him to help her find stolen papers, but he gets more than he bargained for once he discovers that she is a person of ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 46
45.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
At the River's Edge
(1986)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser witnesses an ex convict murder a 19 year girl then kill himself. The girl's wealthy younger sister hires Spenser to find out why her sister was killed. Clues lead Spenser to a ... See full summary »
Director: David Whorf | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 46
46.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
In a Safe Place
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser searches for the father of an undocumented boy killed by an unhinged unemployed man. The trail leads Spenser into a conspiracy involving the exploitation of undocumented workers on the waterfront.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 46
47.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Angel of Desolation
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser is hired by the fashion model wife of a rich bank owner who says her life is in danger. After multiple attempted murders and one successful murder, Spenser realizes that the wife is... See full summary »
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 45
48.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
Homecoming
(1987)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spenser is hired to protect ex-undercover cop, Nick Cavanaugh. As Judge Emmett Cavanaugh tries to make a deal with Crime Boss Gus Harley to safeguard his son and get Cavanaugh's son, Kevin,... See full summary »
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 45
49.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
McAllister
(1988)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the daughter of a Navy captain is murdered, suspicion falls on the (black) lieutenant who had been having an affair with her. McAllister, an honorable attorney and an old friend of Hawk's comes to defend him.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 45
50.
Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode:
When Silence Speaks
(1986)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing. As Spenser investigates, he realizes that the missing man is somehow involved with a gang of ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty
Votes: 45